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Besides the aesthetics, besides teaching an appreciation of T.S. Eliot, a basic need is fulfilled when you teach English at CUNY. -- Billy Collins
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.' -- Jack McDevitt
I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing. -- Rob McClure
I'm starting to teach now: I teach in the graduate film program at NYU and next year I'm going to be teaching at Los Angeles at the film program and English program at UCLA. -- James Franco
We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement. -- Joanne Harris
You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school. -- Emily Rios
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. -- Michael Gove
It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open. -- John McWhorter
My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things. -- Vanna Bonta
He may be dead; or he may be teaching English. -- Cormac McCarthy
In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college. -- Joseph Sobran
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